TY - JOUR
T1 - Charmonium - In and out of the nucleus
AU - Seth, Kamal K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to thank the organizers of QULEN '97 for inviting him. He also wishes to thank T. Pedlar for his help in the preparation of this paper. This work was done with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy.
PY - 1998/2/2
Y1 - 1998/2/2
N2 - The bound states of charm and anticharm quarks, charmonium, offer a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the traditional way of understanding hadronic interactions in nuclear physics, i.e., in terms of meson exchanges, and the QCD based description in terms of gluon exchanges. Inserting charmonium, for example J/ψ, into the nucleus leads to many interesting possibilities. Several of these are mentioned. One, namely J/ψ attenuation in nuclei, is discussed in some detail because of its importance as the possible signature of quark-gluon plasma(QGP) formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions. A technique for the direct measurement of J/ψ -nucleon cross section is proposed.
AB - The bound states of charm and anticharm quarks, charmonium, offer a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the traditional way of understanding hadronic interactions in nuclear physics, i.e., in terms of meson exchanges, and the QCD based description in terms of gluon exchanges. Inserting charmonium, for example J/ψ, into the nucleus leads to many interesting possibilities. Several of these are mentioned. One, namely J/ψ attenuation in nuclei, is discussed in some detail because of its importance as the possible signature of quark-gluon plasma(QGP) formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions. A technique for the direct measurement of J/ψ -nucleon cross section is proposed.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00711-2
DO - 10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00711-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032472466
SN - 0375-9474
VL - 629
SP - 358
EP - 365
JO - Nuclear Physics A
JF - Nuclear Physics A
IS - 1-2
ER -